Mok is one of the creepiest, but brilliant and creative villains I have ever watched. He’s pure evil, psychotic, heartless, cruel, unforgiving, he abuses his lackeys, manipulates anyone to get what he wants, Mok abuses Angel to near death, so she can sing to open an gateway containing an horrific demon from another dimension, he nearly murdered the audience, Angel, and Omar, and he even murdered one of his lackeys all for his fame and legacy can be immortalized. But his arrogance was his very own downfall when one of his lackeys want vengeance for his brother’s death and his abuse and that very lackey threw Mok to the portal which seals forever him and the demon leaving their fates not only unknown, but far worse than death.
@@CLxJamesas @cagedcoco said, he was extremely egotistical and saw 2 empty front row seats in his performance. He was already kinda crazy and probably knew black magic before, but that was why he decided "screw it, I'm unleashing the apocalypse".
I actually saw this movie at the theater back in Tulsa, Oklahoma. I was 11 and loved the commercials I saw. My mom was a drunk and didn’t care if I went to school, so I skipped it and went to see Rock & Rule on the day it came out over at the Fontana Cinema. Man, I was the only person there. I sat and watched it in an empty theater. It lasted one week then pulled. Tragedy.
The movie studio didn’t support the film. They hated it. They poorly promoted it. So, it had very poor ticket sales and back then there were many movies trying to get in the theaters, so they dumped it in favor of something new.
Dude, I don't care about this movie. How are you? Is everything ok? Sorry about your situation in childhood. Hope, that now everything is fine. Cruel world, ma man. Большой привет from Russia!
At the end of his villain song, you see an image of Mok falling through some colorful vortex, with him waking up in a slight panic. He was dreaming, and foreseeing his own demise, and didn't realize it.
Seeing as how the movie made three (03) times its budget back, I've always felt the "bomb" title was a bit unfair. At worst it was a little above "breaking even." Still, the industry wants MASSIVE PROFITS, of course. 💰💰🤑💰💰
@@bickbalsy I've heard they wanted to get Mick Jagger or David Bowie to voice Mok for that movie but none of them were available due to their world tours.
I have yet to see this movie, but I especially like the detail of how the backup singers are obscured in shadows. Mok's face is the only one we're allowed to see, all the focus must be on him.
I remember 37 years ago when I was 4 years old when I rented this movie and had my parents tape it for me off a second vcr and on a blank tape even at five I had my parents tape me this off hbo and all. I jammed to this song when I was a kid as I recorded it off a tape recorder to tv
I also remembered when I was a little kid seeing Mok smoked a joint I thought he was smoking a cigarette and made me wonder why his eyes popped and off face even that white snuff with magical sounds shot to his nose from his ring, that made me wonder what he sniff. Then later at five till nine I saw those antidrug commercials to seeing Robocop in theaters at five , I learned it was pot and cocaine he was doing
Someone said on a video of the original version of the song that Mok needs to hire someone else to write his lyrics and someone else said something along the lines of "If this represents his later work I see why his album flopped" Tbh I agreed until I knew the song had an extended version and "My name is Mok thanks a lot" wasn't the only line in it
The only good lyric is “I’m the power Sodom used on Lot,” never heard that story referenced quite like that before, oddly sophisticated compared to the rest of the lyrics
I love how this film is starting to get more attention these days. It's a cult classic born from a box office bomb. Wierd, wonderful, and a trippy ride!
Its also one of the first movies to use true 3d CGI graphics for the pentacle computer face. The rest of the movie uses traditional photography exposure to simulate computer holographics, but the face is true CGI.
Thanks for this! Awesome song. ""I am on fire. I´m the match, and I am the pyre. I´m the voodoo black magician priest, why I am the biggest thing - since World War III !!" Might be some of the coolest lyrics ever.
I remember watching this movie as I was trying to fall asleep thinking I wouldn’t like it but getting sucked in and staying up WAY too late to finish! It’s definitely a worthy cult classic!
They actually turned down the Heavy Metal movie to continue working on Rock & Rule, which is why the Heavy Metal movie decided to do episodes with different art houses.
I wasn't around yet when this movie came out, but my mom exposed me to the finale a lot when I was a kid, I'm talking about 2008 to 2014. We both love the last song and when I got a bit older, I got to see the whole movie. One of the greatest hidden gems.
i'm glad that someone remastered this, the only other version I could find was scratchy and poor quality, but this one puts Lou Reed's voice to the rightful justice it deserves.
This movie has been part of my being ever since i saw a making-of featurette on an episode of the early 80s Nickelodeon show "Lights! Camera! Action!" Not long after the movie would be on HBO, and I captured it on VHS. I later saw a HiFi copy to rent at Tower Records, so it wasn't until I had a stereo VCR that I got to hear how full the soundtracks (movie and music) were. Years would pass until the DVD version, with visual and audio quality at its peak. Now with the TH-cam, future generations can learn about this 40-year-old curiosity, the first Canadian animated feature, and one of the best rock & roll cartoon movies ever made.
@MyriamRichardsdotter I think that is a very deep analysis of the story from, I haven't watched the film in a while, but I see what you're saying about the connection between magic and modern technology, possibly set up as an analogy by Canadian alternative thinkers. I appreciate the theory and will keep it in mind the next time I watch the film.
I read a Marvel Super Special on the movie in 1982. I bought it off a magazine rack at my local convenient store. I needed to see this movie! And it finally came to my town (Austin TX) in 1985 renamed Ring of Power. I was 15, and somehow talked my grandmother into taking me to see it. It was only in theaters about a week and was gone. I eventually got a VCR recording of the canadian version off of HBO a few years later and wore out the copy. I told my story on a couple of forums and was eventually contacted by someone who wanted a quote for a coffee table book about the movie. It seems I was only one of a handful of people who actually saw it on the big screen during its meager release in the states.
@@GeneElder.R027 I believe it was the 1985 re-release that was used for the DVD and Blu-ray. Does the 35mm prints novana had didn't have the original title.
I keep coming back to this song. The chorus is kinda trash, but the lyrics for the verses are great. Tonally, it has that perfect Rolling Stones era sound. It really sounds like a song that could have been a hit in an alternate reality. The best part of the song is 1:07 to 1:47. I don't know if you call that a bridge or not, but the way it goes on and on and the lyrics stay on-point while momentum builds is great.
It failed at the box office, because it was a year late and everyone at United Artists that initially championed the project had moved on, so it got no promotion and was put on a couple of screens so that United Artists could claim to have honored the contract and wash their hands of it. History would have been different if it was in the can, when it was promised. There are three versions of the film. There is the studio edit, which changed the voice actor for Omar, but I have never watched it. There is the director's re-edit of the studio cut, which I have also never watched. The third version has video and audio defects, but has the original voice acting for Omar. It was broadcast on CBC television as a 'music special' and, for the longest time, was the most seen version of the film. If Omar's song does not have the backup vocals "I was born to raise hell", I know that I am watching the wrong version. The "Unearthed Treasures" release has all three versions, with the 'music special' version on disk2
I think Mok was inspired by Mick Jagger , David Bowie / Iggy Pop & some other guys. And I think they originally wanted David Bowie or Mick Jagger or some body else , I for get who exactly but for some reason they either couldn't get a hold of them or the person refused ( ? ) ( Not a hundred percent sure or clear on this - apologies ) For get how Lou Reed & others got involved too , will have to look it up again since apparently my memory is this 💩 ( oops lol )
@@kalezuki9231 It was Jagger, in fact, Mok's full name is Mok Swagger. But you cant deny the first scene with Omar and Angel at his house he is full Bowie, and when he waked up from the "My Name Is Mok" nightmare, he is Iggy Pop.. in fact, Iggy Pop did the "Pain and Suffering" song that opens the concert in the finale.
I don't understand why this was a dream sequence. This would have been way better if it'd been played in the beginning as Mok was trying to seduce Angel, or as part of the concert.
@@honestbae2815 I actually made a second version which I can't unfortunately post a TH-cam that fixed that issue and ended up using more original footage.
Angel is a cat-woman. Omar is likely a dog-rat hybrid man. Dizzy is likely a mole-man. Stretch is a rat-man. Mok is likely a rat-bat man, possibly some cat ancestry(?)
Only because some of the artists from the movie refused to sign off on releasing it. The movie was eventually released on DVD with all the music, but there are some tracks that the individual artist have never put on albums, so there is not a true "Soundtrack" to be gotten with direct tracks sans overlayed movie voices and foley. Nelvana was rumored to have had a fire and lost a lot of their media, but it was more like they flooded their basement. They have most of their media in storage somewhere.
Mok is one of the creepiest, but brilliant and creative villains I have ever watched. He’s pure evil, psychotic, heartless, cruel, unforgiving, he abuses his lackeys, manipulates anyone to get what he wants, Mok abuses Angel to near death, so she can sing to open an gateway containing an horrific demon from another dimension, he nearly murdered the audience, Angel, and Omar, and he even murdered one of his lackeys all for his fame and legacy can be immortalized. But his arrogance was his very own downfall when one of his lackeys want vengeance for his brother’s death and his abuse and that very lackey threw Mok to the portal which seals forever him and the demon leaving their fates not only unknown, but far worse than death.
And perhaps the most funny motive to him doing all this was that there was 2 empty seats during his last performance 😅
His last words were literally "I am Mok"
I never quite got WHY he wanted to summon the demon. Because he wanted to rule the world? Because his record sales were slumping?
@@CLxJamesas @cagedcoco said, he was extremely egotistical and saw 2 empty front row seats in his performance. He was already kinda crazy and probably knew black magic before, but that was why he decided "screw it, I'm unleashing the apocalypse".
@@CLxJames He wanted to destroy everything, because his last concert wasn't completely sold out.
I actually saw this movie at the theater back in Tulsa, Oklahoma. I was 11 and loved the commercials I saw. My mom was a drunk and didn’t care if I went to school, so I skipped it and went to see Rock & Rule on the day it came out over at the Fontana Cinema. Man, I was the only person there. I sat and watched it in an empty theater. It lasted one week then pulled. Tragedy.
Why was it pulled? I was too little to know why
The movie studio didn’t support the film. They hated it. They poorly promoted it. So, it had very poor ticket sales and back then there were many movies trying to get in the theaters, so they dumped it in favor of something new.
Dude, I don't care about this movie. How are you? Is everything ok? Sorry about your situation in childhood. Hope, that now everything is fine. Cruel world, ma man. Большой привет from Russia!
@@МихаилЗ-э5дwhat is the goal of saying such a thing
You sir, had taste at an early age!
At the end of his villain song, you see an image of Mok falling through some colorful vortex, with him waking up in a slight panic. He was dreaming, and foreseeing his own demise, and didn't realize it.
Huh. never thought of that.
Jesus loves you!
I´m glad that despite it being a box-office bomb, it became a cult classic.
Seeing as how the movie made three (03) times its budget back, I've always felt the "bomb" title was a bit unfair. At worst it was a little above "breaking even." Still, the industry wants MASSIVE PROFITS, of course. 💰💰🤑💰💰
I watched it for the first time a little while ago. Awesome movie
This was cool but what the hell movie is this from!?
@@animehybrid7021 Rock and Rule
didnt it only make 30k against an 8 million dollar budget
He’s a fusion of Mick Jagger, Steven Tyler, and David Bowie.
That was intended.
Seemed heavily influenced by Iggy Pop to me.
@@bickbalsy I've heard they wanted to get Mick Jagger or David Bowie to voice Mok for that movie but none of them were available due to their world tours.
@@bickbalsy was here to say the same thing.
Dee Snider ))
Guys I think his name just might be mok
Thanks a lot!
No I’m pretty sure his name is mok
You sure? It was pretty vague.
If he was from Boston would he be Mokky-Mok?
Wait are you sure? This may be a stretch
Mok is so vain, he probably thinks this comment is about him.
I got that reference
Me too!
🎵Oh you probably think this is about you, don't you, don't you?🎵
Carly Simons, is that you?
I can hear johny depps guitar on this guitar
Extended version and very crisp.
I have yet to see this movie, but I especially like the detail of how the backup singers are obscured in shadows. Mok's face is the only one we're allowed to see, all the focus must be on him.
Really, really, REALLY good! Love this extended version! Rest in POWER Lou Reed!
I remember 37 years ago when I was 4 years old when I rented this movie and had my parents tape it for me off a second vcr and on a blank tape even at five I had my parents tape me this off hbo and all.
I jammed to this song when I was a kid as I recorded it off a tape recorder to tv
4 yr old you had really good taste hahah
Damn right
Nice nice
Under-rated classic. RIP Lou.
What date or how he died?
Wow this sounds crisp. Best version by far. Well done.
Nice fella, and sings pretty good... I wonder what his name is tho.
Yeah I know, so vague! 😂
He is Mock
@@Нарушаятишину-щ9о thanks alot
Man this song is quite rockin and man this film is underatted.....rip Lou Reed
I also remembered when I was a little kid seeing Mok smoked a joint I thought he was smoking a cigarette and made me wonder why his eyes popped and off face even that white snuff with magical sounds shot to his nose from his ring, that made me wonder what he sniff.
Then later at five till nine I saw those antidrug commercials to seeing Robocop in theaters at five , I learned it was pot and cocaine he was doing
Funny, the things we learn.
Those "don't do it" ads taught us so much.
Those commercials were scary
Those propaganda commercials were scary
Someone said on a video of the original version of the song that Mok needs to hire someone else to write his lyrics and someone else said something along the lines of "If this represents his later work I see why his album flopped"
Tbh I agreed until I knew the song had an extended version and "My name is Mok thanks a lot" wasn't the only line in it
The only good lyric is “I’m the power Sodom used on Lot,” never heard that story referenced quite like that before, oddly sophisticated compared to the rest of the lyrics
I hadn't seen it mentioned, but his full name is Mok Swagger for those wondering.
LOVE this song and the animation imagery is mind-bendingly cool!
No one will ever have enough swag to compare to Mok Swagger.
Im convinced Marilyn Manson took his character from Mok.
It cirtenly is a interesting watch
I love how this film is starting to get more attention these days. It's a cult classic born from a box office bomb. Wierd, wonderful, and a trippy ride!
Its also one of the first movies to use true 3d CGI graphics for the pentacle computer face. The rest of the movie uses traditional photography exposure to simulate computer holographics, but the face is true CGI.
Most cult classics ARE box office bombs. That’s WHY they are cult classics.
Thanks for this! Awesome song. ""I am on fire. I´m the match, and I am the pyre. I´m the voodoo black magician priest, why I am the biggest thing - since World War III !!" Might be some of the coolest lyrics ever.
I remember watching this movie as I was trying to fall asleep thinking I wouldn’t like it but getting sucked in and staying up WAY too late to finish! It’s definitely a worthy cult classic!
I've only just discovered Rock And Rule and it feels like if A Goofy Movie and Heavy Metal were combined into one movie.
They actually turned down the Heavy Metal movie to continue working on Rock & Rule, which is why the Heavy Metal movie decided to do episodes with different art houses.
@@GeneElder.R027 Ah, I see now.
This remaster sounds incredible!!!!
This deserves more likes!!!
I wasn't around yet when this movie came out, but my mom exposed me to the finale a lot when I was a kid, I'm talking about 2008 to 2014. We both love the last song and when I got a bit older, I got to see the whole movie. One of the greatest hidden gems.
I feel like if this was realized today it would be a hit.
i'm glad that someone remastered this, the only other version I could find was scratchy and poor quality, but this one puts Lou Reed's voice to the rightful justice it deserves.
I loved this movie so much in the 1980s that I named my magic-user D&D character Mok.
I survived MOK's Farewell Tour
It's a shame this movie bombed like it did, seeing mok hamming it up would have been worth the ticket on its own lol
Why have I not seen this? This is a really kick-butt little tune. I first heard Lou in 1974 at a church camp when someone played "Wild Side."
LONG LIVE MOK!
This movie has been part of my being ever since i saw a making-of featurette on an episode of the early 80s Nickelodeon show "Lights! Camera! Action!" Not long after the movie would be on HBO, and I captured it on VHS. I later saw a HiFi copy to rent at Tower Records, so it wasn't until I had a stereo VCR that I got to hear how full the soundtracks (movie and music) were. Years would pass until the DVD version, with visual and audio quality at its peak. Now with the TH-cam, future generations can learn about this 40-year-old curiosity, the first Canadian animated feature, and one of the best rock & roll cartoon movies ever made.
I remember that show. It really triggered my love of behind the scenes.
This movie's such a classic. It's great.
Great re master! About as great as you are going to get since the original masters burned.
Fukin tragic I'm just discovering this masterpiece
HELL I thought that was a Funky 70's version of the JOKER!? I was waiting for a CRAZY Looking version of BATMAN to trying to catch him!
Great job on this.
I think about Mok a lot, especially when listening to David Bowie
@MyriamRichardsdotter I think that is a very deep analysis of the story from, I haven't watched the film in a while, but I see what you're saying about the connection between magic and modern technology, possibly set up as an analogy by Canadian alternative thinkers. I appreciate the theory and will keep it in mind the next time I watch the film.
🎶🎶His name is Mok. Thanks A Lot!🎶🎶
Love this film! One of Nelvana Animation 's finest efforts ever!
I need this on Spotify... yesterday 😭
Now this is a villain song.
I read a Marvel Super Special on the movie in 1982. I bought it off a magazine rack at my local convenient store. I needed to see this movie! And it finally came to my town (Austin TX) in 1985 renamed Ring of Power. I was 15, and somehow talked my grandmother into taking me to see it. It was only in theaters about a week and was gone. I eventually got a VCR recording of the canadian version off of HBO a few years later and wore out the copy. I told my story on a couple of forums and was eventually contacted by someone who wanted a quote for a coffee table book about the movie. It seems I was only one of a handful of people who actually saw it on the big screen during its meager release in the states.
@@GeneElder.R027 I believe it was the 1985 re-release that was used for the DVD and Blu-ray. Does the 35mm prints novana had didn't have the original title.
2:23 bro has a pimple on his shoulder
Me encantó la canción
Omg I've never heard the extended version. Ugh, its so good 💜
Just stumbled upon this today. Man, the nostalgia. Thanks for reminding me about Rock & Rule.
0:29 Guys I think he might be the villain guys. But I'm not sure about that
This is what counts as the best-written rock song in the 31st century.
I know he isn't voiced by Tim Curry but my brain is converting his voice to Tim Curry in my mind.
incredible remaster!!!
Quality is excellent!
I love this movie!
0:32 I have seen the likes of that. Mother Brain, from that old Captain N cartoon. The resemblance in the face is absolutely uncanny.
*Rock and Rule* (1983)
thank you
This movie is glorious
I never listened a long version! Thanks!
The whole song ❤️
This ran on Night Flight.
A lot of people that had VCR copies got it from that one run. It was also the canadian version with the alternative Omar voice.
RIP legend
His lips still disturbs me to this day
MOK FOREVER
Thanks a lot...
I keep coming back to this song. The chorus is kinda trash, but the lyrics for the verses are great. Tonally, it has that perfect Rolling Stones era sound. It really sounds like a song that could have been a hit in an alternate reality.
The best part of the song is 1:07 to 1:47. I don't know if you call that a bridge or not, but the way it goes on and on and the lyrics stay on-point while momentum builds is great.
Now I'll have watch the movie.
Rock And Rule
maravilha
the reason the movie failed at the box was the fans were to young to see the movie .😢
It failed at the box office, because it was a year late and everyone at United Artists that initially championed the project had moved on, so it got no promotion and was put on a couple of screens so that United Artists could claim to have honored the contract and wash their hands of it. History would have been different if it was in the can, when it was promised.
There are three versions of the film. There is the studio edit, which changed the voice actor for Omar, but I have never watched it. There is the director's re-edit of the studio cut, which I have also never watched. The third version has video and audio defects, but has the original voice acting for Omar. It was broadcast on CBC television as a 'music special' and, for the longest time, was the most seen version of the film. If Omar's song does not have the backup vocals "I was born to raise hell", I know that I am watching the wrong version. The "Unearthed Treasures" release has all three versions, with the 'music special' version on disk2
cool
reminds me a lot of Iggy Pops first album that Bowie produced
I think Mok was inspired by Mick Jagger , David Bowie / Iggy Pop & some other guys. And I think they originally wanted David Bowie or Mick Jagger or some body else , I for get who exactly but for some reason they either couldn't get a hold of them or the person refused ( ? ) ( Not a hundred percent sure or clear on this - apologies ) For get how Lou Reed & others got involved too , will have to look it up again since apparently my memory is this 💩 ( oops lol )
@@kalezuki9231 It was Jagger, in fact, Mok's full name is Mok Swagger. But you cant deny the first scene with Omar and Angel at his house he is full Bowie, and when he waked up from the "My Name Is Mok" nightmare, he is Iggy Pop.. in fact, Iggy Pop did the "Pain and Suffering" song that opens the concert in the finale.
I would never have guessed Lou Reed if you hadn't told us up front.
I don't understand why this was a dream sequence. This would have been way better if it'd been played in the beginning as Mok was trying to seduce Angel, or as part of the concert.
I figured it was something between a music video and a drug trip. Like he was watching one of his older music videos while coked out of his mind.
Remastering this song must’ve take a LOT of work.
We WILL get it back in theaters, folks. 🫡
I'm getting strong Heavy Metal vibes here.
What's his name?
This song is actually a good
Mok Swagger from Rock and Rule 1983. Ah being a kid in the 80s 😅
The name of the movie is rock and rule
The beginning is so unique and strong that is a shame there ends up being so much reused animation
@@honestbae2815 I actually made a second version which I can't unfortunately post a TH-cam that fixed that issue and ended up using more original footage.
My name is Mok.
Not to be confused with Bill, or Jack, or Pete, or Dennis
My name is Mok.
love this film. anyone know what animal he’s supposed to be a hybrid with? angels a cat, omar a rat(?), mok is…mok?
I'm not sure what Mok is... but he certainly is Mok.
Angel is a cat-woman.
Omar is likely a dog-rat hybrid man.
Dizzy is likely a mole-man.
Stretch is a rat-man.
Mok is likely a rat-bat man, possibly some cat ancestry(?)
Is there a high-quality version of the end duet version of "Send Love Through?" I was told the high-quality version of this soundtrack was lost media!
Only because some of the artists from the movie refused to sign off on releasing it. The movie was eventually released on DVD with all the music, but there are some tracks that the individual artist have never put on albums, so there is not a true "Soundtrack" to be gotten with direct tracks sans overlayed movie voices and foley. Nelvana was rumored to have had a fire and lost a lot of their media, but it was more like they flooded their basement. They have most of their media in storage somewhere.
Im sorry, what was his name again?
Strong Doctor Frankenfurter vibes.
Based
The best character in the film was Mok’s lips.
Moks mouth is a seperate living being.
It went on to do Twizzlers commercials after his demise.
Weirdly enough I find this much more enjoyable to listen to sped up just a little bit to 1.25 speed.
What a great remaster! Any chance we can get a download link for it? I love this song, but I've never heard it this clear!
Uncle Mikey
Not many villains give me the vibe that they ate their fetal twin in the womb.
MOK is like Iggy Pop, David Bowie & Alice Cooper were used to make the most awesome Villian in this cult classic. ROCK AND RULE ya gotta check it out.
I still think Marilyn Manson was a Mok fan in his childhood and copied Mok in his early career.
How wasn't this movie successful!? Does anyone know where I can watch the whole film?
The internet archive has the Blu-ray files.
I saw this cartoon a while back I would not recommend to watch this thing high as a kite or on drugs😂😂
I want his life.
Put a dress on him and he would be the spokes person for the rainbow mafia. Fitting he's a villain too.
Cool song. Does anyone know what this character's name is? The Lou Reed character specifically